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  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  said that this is to encourage students to attend classes and get a feel ... hack,[/annotation] it must be CPW. Not only do a thousand prefrosh get to ... ". They shortly put up a Caltech vs. MIT website to "keep score", although

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  tuning back out every once in a while to make sure I don't get hit by a car ... want to get there by [annotation note="i like to be a little on the ... doesn't have maintenance staff. You get to feel a part of a different

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  ’s shelters, and how this inspired her to start her organization. As a result ... own website and foundation, emphasize the narrative of homelessness by ... of a permanent house[annotation note="To be very clear, I do not want

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  by taking all of an hour to take two cards out of envelopes... I had a ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  's the only time a year I get to see many of my friends in-person, and I ... ='My instinct is that "executive meddling" gets a bad rap due to survivorship bias ... is to find a puzzle's answer by working on another puzzle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  didn't expect to get fifty classes, let alone a hundred and twenty! But ... with all 183 teachers to get them background checked, as required by MIT ... learn to adapt The fruit of my labor Impostor A sense of scale

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  when I could get closest to him, and I had a mission. Mission? Allow me ... Obama's address. Needless to say, the MechE student who doesn't have a ... ticket. So that was that, I'd stalk around and try to get some money shots

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  to get it." It's funny, I guess, that Hunt has been a venue to explore ... it seemed impossible for us to finish it by six. I felt that it was a ... , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It ... 'm saying to comfort myself.☺ Since graduating, I’ve been thinking a lot ... a zillion clubs (it would be indecent to say just how many) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  the projects I liked. I like to think of myself as a reflective person ... did you like about it?" Which, by the way, was a question an interviewer ... many files, or scraping information from a website, or repetitively

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... get to know members on a personal level. In the end, the people who know ... of a D9 organization. He grew up surrounded by [annotation note

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  lengths to advertise itself as a place not only of rigorous academics, but ... to and influence on campus life allowed a critical mass of students to ... physical culture, […] but it is to afford as well a place which shall be the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  indexed by a real number in the interval 0 <= x <= 1. The more ... ; instead, flip a coin again (coin #2). If coin #2 shows heads, you get to ... : Professors' names will go to websites about them, not their email addresses

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . ‘18 It is 5 am. You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem ... . You are startled awake by the answer to a pset problem. You are in ... , stumbling to the bathroom. Your path is blocked by a herd of tetafrosh

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  ’s vaguely about linguistics, even though my actual job is designing a website ... to our math olympiad summer camp, back at home, in a week. i made a digital whiteboard as a tiny personal project. by all measures, three ’Di

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . By itself, this would NOT have been a good reason to apply. But in the ... him there getting all excited every time I’d get to a new practice ... . By encouraging the undergrads to go off and get experiences elsewhere

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  accurately be titled, "How to get the most out of reading the MITblogs," or maybe "How to not get a sarcastic reply to a question from me." I fixed ... passed it on to us. That was awesome. I spent a week wandering around

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  test scores to prove it. 4. Get off campus at least once a week. It ... exhausting routine. At the very least, take a walk. Get to know the community ... would have preferred to sleep, and had a mini emotional breakdown in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  . They try to remember their students’ names and passions. We get a ... I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015